Example sentences of "[noun] would have [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His last words would have made a fine song title . |
| 2 | A suggested reason for this decision is that to grant an action would have subverted the common law negligence action which lay in these circumstances . |
| 3 | To translate this new legal status into political action would have required an organised support basis and this did not exist . |
| 4 | Opinion polls suggested throughout the campaign that Labour would have stood a better chance with the Scottish lawyer at the helm , and he has powerful support on the backbenches , especially among fellow Scots . |
| 5 | ‘ That opinion was largely based on the fact that in Robin Cook , Labour would have boasted a senior Cabinet minister with good understanding and enthusiasm for racing . |
| 6 | Under it , major changes in reserves would have created an overwhelming presumption that a change in the exchange rate was around the corner , and thus encouraged speculation on what was in effect a certain bet . |
| 7 | However that avenue was never explored to its end ; and if it had been , one may doubt whether many readers would have grasped the total effect . |
| 8 | If accumulation in the boom had been based on an unchanged mass of machinery per worker then an extension of the capital stock would have required an equivalent increase in workers employed . |
| 9 | The latter half of the sixteenth century does , arguably , represent a significant turning point in the development of the hierarchy : until that time one can argue that its evolution had been largely functional , that the nature of the hierarchy ensured that those who reached the highest learned offices would have received a thorough grounding in the necessary sciences through both their education and their teaching , and practical training in the application of the law through holding several important kadiliks ; but that after that time , that is , from toward the end of the sixteenth century , the elaboration of the hierarchy was much more negative from the point of view both of learning and of good administration , being essentially an attempt to provide jobs and honours for an ever-increasing number of those seeking both . |
| 10 | He did n't expect to find any as the hotel had recently been refurbished and the KGB would have used the latest available technology , burying it in the plasterwork , the heating and the plumbing . |
| 11 | However , [ 15b ] is less direct than [ 15c ] in the sense that the hearer would have to derive the contextual implication conveyed explicitly in [ 15c ] in order to establish how well B got on . |
| 12 | Using the cleanest virus in the world , least changed by virtue of its isolation in extreme conditions , against which the human cell would have had no natural experience , they had inserted the Mahon virus into the molecular structure of the human gamete . |
| 13 | Where it is clear that the contract-breaker would have taken the same steps anyway the inducement is not an effective cause of the loss . |
| 14 | If a new Prime Minister were needed for an emergency coalition and no obvious successor existed , the Sovereign would have to make the best choice possible . |
| 15 | And no doubt other authors would have chosen a different balance of topics — more invertebrates and light vertebrates perhaps . |
| 16 | Chant would have given a good deal to break the bastard 's nose so he bled on it . |
| 17 | Some referees would have produced a red card instantly , but Alan Flood decided that the challenge only merited a yellow . |
| 18 | To buy and run the above mentioned Cavalier and Mercedes-Benz , the two drivers would have to earn an extra £4900 and £10,916 respectively ( the calculations being based on cost-per-mile figures from industry analysts ) . |
| 19 | A significant number of subjects ( 7/37 ) , however , had food reflux that was outside one standard deviation from the mean , whereas only one of these subjects would have had a positive reflux score by measuring acid alone . |
| 20 | Price Waterhouse 's UK practice would have experienced a negative growth rate in fee income in the year to June 1992 , if it had not been for the firm 's corporate recovery arm . |
| 21 | Instead of a free subscription to an obscure journal ( which came with the registration fee ) many listeners would have preferred a decent abstract list — not to mention fewer unimaginative and time-worn presentations . |
| 22 | To make it look like suicide , the killer would have to get the unconscious — or possibly already dead — man across two metres of rough , stony ground . |
| 23 | I knew Malpass would have had no more than a fleeting glimpse of them , but just to be sure , I went behind the bar and found an empty crisp box . |
| 24 | It 's improbable that a male college would have achieved a similar effect with men or women . |
| 25 | To have released Meehan from seven years of wrongful imprisonment , recommended a free pardon for him , and then to have arrested and charged Waddell for the same crime would have required a greater degree of resolution than either of them possessed . |
| 26 | Tim Renton , once the Minister for the Arts ( in any other country save Britain his title would have been Minister of Culture ) , thought Hyacinth would have made an admirable Carmen . |
| 27 | Cursory reading of the financial pages over the past few months would have left the average reader with the impression that while the US and UK economies were laboriously but undeniable clambering out of the recessionary trough , Japan was flat on its back and looking like getting worse before it got better , and that high interest rates in Germany were plunging that economy into a recessionary black hole and dragging most of the rest of the continent with it — now comes a report from International Data Corp saying its Global IT Survey of 5,000 computer executives , 500 chief executives and finance chiefs , and 1,100 local network managers in six biggest economies indicates that growth in computer spending will rise 2% to 3% in 1993 and , surprise , surprise — the US and the UK should outperform the rest of Europe and Japan . |
| 28 | This proposal would have involved a different , immensely complicated , and , for suspects , terrifying new caution which could easily fatally have undermined the whole rule . |
| 29 | In any case , a shotgun fired into the undertaker 's neck at close range would have made a real mess ; we would n't be looking at just a cupful of blood . |
| 30 | Conservative group leader Tony Richmond accused finance committee chair Jan Taylor of saying the council would have set a higher budget if it were not for government spending constraints . |